Palmetto Bay, Florida
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Kendall-Palmetto Bay census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33157. The Survey maps it on the Perrine quadrangle. 24,439 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1949 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 45 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1949 against another survey:
Population over time
2 figuresPalmetto Bay grew from 23,410 to 24,439 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 23,410 | |
| 2020 | 24,439 | +1,029 (+4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1949 USGS Perrine quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Miami quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1956 USGS Perrine quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1958 USGS Miami quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Miami quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Miami quadrangle1:250000
- 1988 USGS Perrine quadrangle1:24000
- 1994 USGS Perrine quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
173 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 173 fires within 5 miles of Palmetto Bay between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,562 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 41 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 46 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 41 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 38 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 28 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 1994 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 5.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 26 September 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 18 September 2006 | Natural | 25 acres | Florida Forest Service | THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI FIRE |
| 8 August 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | 10 acres | Florida Forest Service | LAKE BY THE BAY (13) |
| 17 August 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 11 August 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 80 acres | Florida Forest Service | COASTIE FIRE |
| 30 July 1992 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 3 July 2011 | Fireworks | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | 168 CORNER (13) |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Palmetto Bay: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kendall Limestone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Perrine Limestone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Pit 12 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Richmond Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cutler | 0.9 miles | 17 | |
| Rockdale | 1.0 miles | 14 | |
| East Perrine | 1.2 miles | 17 | |
| Kings Bay | 1.6 miles | 14 | |
| Howard | 1.8 miles | 14 | |
| Perrine | 1.9 miles | 17 | |
| Palmetto Estates | 2.0 miles | 17 | |
| Deering Bay | 2.1 miles | 14 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Palmetto Bay | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q937586 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1989948. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.







